Book Review: “Cognitive neuroscience of language”

Book Review: “Cognitive neuroscience of language”

Book Review: Cognitive Neuroscience of Natural Language Use

Cognitive neuroscientists occasionally grapple with the issue of " ecological validity " : does one's study capture essential aspects of the processes of interest, as they occur in real life? Ecological validity is frequently seen as an impossible standard to meet. In practice, it often receives lower priority than internal consistency, replicability and reproducibility, and control of experime...

Book Review: 'Ecolinguistics: Language and ecology'

Ecolinguistics: language and ecology delivers an overall view and a critical approach on ecolinguistic studies. This book is an excellent resource to students, researchers, linguists and those working in the area of discourse analysis as well as ecology. The book claims presenting a news course for ecolinguistics including a framework for understanding the theory of ecolinguistics, exploration ...

Language, computers and cognitive neuroscience

It is not tissuemicrostructure or functional capability that sets the human brain apart from other organs and systems, but its organisational complexity, and to understand the brain at this level remains one of the great scientific challenges of our age. There is no doubt that computation will prove central to the endeavour, both as a framework for understanding, and a medium for simulating, co...

cognitive neuroscience of foreign language education: myths and realities

this paper summarizes the educational implications of current research on cognitive neuroscience for foreign-language learning to provide an overview of myths and realities in this appealing area of research. although the potential benefits of neuroscientific research into language acquisition are great, there are a number of popular myths that none of which are supported by scientific evidence...